Going to hold off on an upgrade right now. But I need some serious help with the reef.
Let me start with my concerns and problems.
Although my hair algae subsided on the rocks that I treated, it still has foothold in the places I can't reach. I believe I found my source to be too much light and partially due to my food source and not from my water source or the lack of water changes.
Mostly all of my sps corals have zero polyp extension during the day. This has been going on for months and not all because of my parameters but because of my flame angel who picks at most of them. Polyp extension is great only when it's pitch dark and no moonlights. Since my color is poor on most sps corals I believe I may have some kind of red bugs or parasites on them and would like to know how to treat? I will say growth has been great for most of all sps.
Another issue that I'm having with my flame angel has some sort of parasite and I have narrowed it down to two diseases. Hexamita or Nematoda. It eats very well but has long stingy poop lately and the front of his head has become blackish and it is twitching So for more reason that not I would like to offer my flame angel (mango) to a good home. He needs to be treated for his parasites but know he will pull through. It deserves to have a bigger tank to swim, my tank is too small and I can't feed him enough food throughout the day. It seems heartless but I don't have the resources or the time to treat the fish right now and know there are a lot of great reefers around here (San Jose ) that can give mango a good home. I would like to keep this local.
In conclusion
I feel that my filtration is not keeping up with my bioload and need to either enhance my filtration and or decrease my bioload. I would like to donate my flame angel to a good home and that will help with my bioload and for my corals In order to rid my tank of the HA once in for all, I'm Willing to tear down the tank and treat all of the rock. I will need to remove all the rock anyway to catch the angel. I need some help on what I can do to improve polyp extension and better water quality.
Just a recap of what I have
: 33 gal DT
18 gal sump
40lbs lr in DT
20 lbs lr in sump
Asm skimmer
Gfo reactor
Carbon reactor
2- mp10s
2- Kessil 350w
Apex controller
Fuge light but no macro at this time.
10lbs ls in DT
Ato with lime
Auto dose calcium, alk,mag
Parameters
1.026
Ph-7.98-8.20
Cal - 400 ( getting this up more now that I have a doser)
Alk - 8.4
Mag - 1350
Temp 79.5-80.0
Phos .02
Trate 2-5ppm
Bioload
Flame angel
Gumdrop goby
6 line wrasse
2 black ocellaris clowns
1 peppermint shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
1 emerald crab
5 nassaurius snails ( give or take )
5 snails ( give or take)
8 various hermit crabs
About 50 corals
1 giant dersea clam
I feed once per day mixture of frozen and flake
I do routine weekly water changes of 20%
Light are on from 8 am to 6 pm.
All rodi water
So what the heck am I doing wrong to be getting poor color and PE on my corals and having excess nutrients? I would rather have a better filtration than start going to only feeding every other day but I will if hear from enough of you. Please let's hear some suggestions. Any thoughts on my equipment , bio load, parameters, or processes?
